Poetry. Asian American Studies. Arlene Biala's stark, tender, sensual and political poetry explores stories of the generations who have left their native lands to live in America, particularly those from the islands of the Philippines. Arlene Biala's poetry speaks with compassion and fire, a long-time chant for our own 'articulations in waves and kindness' ... Once inside the poems, after we shed the violent displacements and slippages, there is a lucid continent of creation and infinite motion, our human spirit music - always flowing like Pele's hair -- Juan Felipe Herrera.
